How Toronto got the nickname Hogtown Toronto Hogtown
The story generally goes that Toronto was nicknamed Hogtown after the sprawling stock yards of the William Davies Company, one of Canada's earliest and largest meat packers.
"The remark originally had no relation at all to our friend the hog, but was merely intended to convey an impression that the citizens of Toronto were porcine in their tendencies and had their forefeet in anything worth having," it said. Instead of taking the insult as it was surely intended, Toronto seemed to grow attached to the monicker."We are no longer desirous of putting aside the garland woven for us by our jealous neighbours," the"We accept it, and shall wear it blushingly on modest brows. For this is Hogtown, and growing more hoggy all the time."In 1854, William Davies, an English grocer who had recently arrived in Toronto with his wife and first child, opened a faltering stall in the St.
It was here Davies' company is credited with inventing another Toronto icon - peameal bacon. His butchers rolled the cured and trimmed loin in ground yellow peas, which were also part of the animals' diet, to help the meat make the trans Atlantic journey. It tasted pretty good, too. Around the same time, his eyesight failing and two of his children sick with tuberculosis, Davies sold just under half of his company to Joseph Flavelle, an experienced retailer. It was under the control of this religious reformed drinker that the William Davies Company saw its biggest success.
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